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I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder for us to sit with the small amounts of distress that come just by living itself. It isn't that we're chasing happiness; I think we have the wrong model of happiness. I mean, defined as eudaimonia, defined as a values-based life of integrity and fidelity to yourself and what you most deeply want to stand for, that definition of happiness - man, that's the kind of life I want to live and I think that will support people and sustain people.

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Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

Concert, Remember, Silence, Silent
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The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent. '

Effective Listening, I Hate You, Listening Ear, Same, Silent, Word

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Composed, Ought, Piece, Pieces, Should, Tradition

Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

Art, Chaotic, Giving, Order, Sense, Work

Silence. . . is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Essence, Ingredient, Ingredients, Music, Silence

In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

Despair, Escape, Likes, Moving, Schubert, Yield
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